Adam Glover
A wonderful companion piece to Sensations in Two Dot. The stripped-down arrangements of those songs highlight just how good the songwriting is. Lithium is a great inclusion as well.
Favorite track: Homecoming Queen (live POP Montreal session).
Jersey City boy
On the rooftop cool in the city
Hot headed in the night
Got a burning for a good way forward
Got a fire in his eye
Jesuit school and daddy is a doctor
Nanny in the attic and Johnny’s got cancer
Mama’s got five kids
You’ve got asthma
Take it to the shore
Just a benny on the beach with a hard cut style
Another restless kid on the Avon mile
Hail Marys and Rock and Roll
Springsteen is gonna save your soul
You’ve got the spark that’ll start this fire
And everywhere I go there you are
I can feel it in my blood - there you are
What a restless soul - what a heart on fire
I wanna take it there - I wanna find you here
- - - - -
Ten years a requiem
Can I let it go now?
And all the things lost
Can I let them go now?
Can I let them go now?
Can I let them go?
I held your suffering
I didn’t want it!
I got a tough skin
I didn’t want it!
I didn’t want it
I didn’t want it
The salt is thickest at the bottom of the sea
I know it - see my tongue I have licked it!
I followed you down to the bottom of the sea
I grew gills, my blood thickened
I gotta tough skin
I gotta tough skin
Ten years a reckoning
Are we in the clear now?
And every word spent
Are we in the clear now?
Are we in the clear now?
Are we in the clear?
I gotta tough skin
I gotta tough skin
From the moment that I heard
Like a blueprint in my blood
It was comin’ like Biblical flood
I know it’s not the way we wanted it to be
But still the waters rose in that imminent sea!
I gotta tough skin
I gotta tough skin
Just your standard Homecoming Queen
Just a loony bin hero
She goes hot for the artists and sweet for her mama
You love her when she’s manic
You hate it when she’s sad
Were you looking for a gilded saint?
Some kind of poet? A prophet?
To lead you to the water in the night?
She’ll show you the way though it won’t be the only way
You’ll follow her there though it won’t be easy
And then when she’s gone you’ll cast her in porcelain
Then you’ll put her portrait down in chalk pastel
She was busy tripping on cracks in the pavement
You took her photo in the candlelight so you’d remember her smooth
It ain’t what we thought it would be
It ain’t what was promised
The walls and the ceiling were solid but the ground was hollow
Yeah we wanted a father
We got a revolution
You can blame it on the medication
You can blame it on the institution
He was aching for more than was given
We could see it in his eyes
He showed us the way though it wasn’t the only way
We followed him there though it wasn’t easy
And then when he was gone we cast him in porcelain
Then we put his portrait down in chalk pastel
He was busy tripping on cracks in the pavement
We took his photo in the candlelight so we’d remember him smooth
Tell again that American dream
The storybook version
The one with the early risers in the cul de sac
All it needed was a songbird
What a pretty tune
Sweet cantata in the morning light
A little love song for your delight
Yet you find yourself straining to hear the hallelujah in the night
In the night...
Lupins on the road and sorrow in the north
You’ve been hanging on a dream for so long
Got an aching heart in Montreal
Didn’t think it’d be so hard to let him love you
I see you there
I can feel you
I have arms to hold you but I haven’t words
Come on to me now
Let me hold you
There’s a softness here I’ve taken down my walls
Blood is in the south and fire in the west
High fever in the eyes of the beholder
Calloused is the skin and weathered is the heart
There are things you didn’t want to get used to
I see you there
I can feel you
I have arms to hold you but I haven’t words
Come on to me now
Let me hold you
There’s a softness here I’ve taken down my walls
Take it to a mountain - take it to the sea
Take it to the one who knew you in your darkness
Put it down on paper - put it in a song
Distill the desperation from your anger
Can you see me now?
Can you feel me?
I have tried to take it on but I am tired
Come on to me now
Will you hold me?
There’s a softness here I’ve taken down my walls
There’s a softness here I’ve taken down my walls
There’s a softness here I haven’t any walls
When I think about the weeks
Leading up to the hospital
How I stole your roommate’s rings
Left you waiting on the island
And all those cryptic notes I wrote
on your facebook wall I feel
Sick
Boy did they write the book on me
Thoughts of grandiosity
Talking fast, moving quick
Honestly I was so relieved
Just to be happy
Chemicals can take the blame
Still I can’t help but feel the shame
Wondering what could’ve been
If it had been normal
If I hadn’t gone crazy
And on your part to be fair
I was right across the street
And you only came to see me once in five week
But on your part to be fair
I know it caught you unaware
How were you supposed to know how to help me?
The thing about the hospital was that
I was hoping I wouldn’t need it
The thing about the hospital was that
I was hoping I’d be fine
I’d always been a little bit wild
I’d always been a little bit sad - yeah
The thing about the hospital was it ate up all my precious time
What a shock to find my brain
Back in the fog this summer
All consuming, suffocating the same old story
I could feel you pulling back
Shutting down - who could blame you?
So close to it, black hole spinning, a sinking ship
And I know you’ll stick it out
You’re here for good
You’re not bailing
Still I’m not blind: i could see it
How it scared you
So on my part now I swear
I will do everything I can
Not to ever get that low again
Cause I hate it
And on my part now I swear
I will do everything I can
Not to ever get that high again
Cause it broke me
See me now - I’m being so careful
See me not - I’m been so good
Still I’ve got my reservations
Just like any sane person would
And
The thing about the lithium is that
I was hoping I wouldn’t need it
The thing about the lithium is that
I was hoping I’d be fine
I’ve always been a little bit wild
I’ve always been a little bit sad - yeah
The thing about the lithium is
I guess I’ll miss my edges a tad
I’ve been thinking ‘bout the eagle you painted for your grandfather
I’ve been thinking ‘bout your new room with the white walls at the shelter
I’ve been thinking ‘bout the bullies that’ll keep you from going back to highschool
And I’ve been thinking ‘bout your red hair - you never looked us in the eyes
I want to tell you that it’s all gonna get better
I want to tell you that it’s all gonna get easier
I want to tell you that it’s all gonna get better
I want to tell you that it’s all gonna get easier
You took the car and the two kids and you left him in the mountains
I know you’re tired of the same shit and the money keeps disappearing
I really didn’t realize how hard you’ve been struggling
I really didn’t realize how alone you’ve been - how lonely
Do you think it’s gonna be alright?
Do you think it’s gonna be alright?
God I hope it’s gonna be alright
God I hope it’s gonna be alright
I’ve got a list it’s been growing since I was thirteen years old
And you told me what your brother did
I’ve got a list it’s got strangers and fathers
And guys from around our town
And every single name still hits me in the gut - like a bullet in the gut
Yeah every single name still hits me in the gut - like a bullet in the gut
Yeah every single name still hits me in the gut - like a bullet in the gut
Yeah every single name still hits me in the gut - like a bullet in the gut
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